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Around the PAC-10 (Week 6)

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Home field wasn’t enough for Arizona on Saturday. (Image via Wikipedia)

Upset special! Two underdogs prevailed in the conference’s 5 games this week, and two others displayed better-than-expected performances. Arizona looks more vulnerable than ever, Oregon State is getting back on track, and Oregon beat Washington State by fewer points than the margin by which the Ducks took down Stanford. That was… surprising. Cal also looks to be heading back in the right direction, although UCLA remains a wildly inconsistent squad.

Here are your PAC-10 scores, complete with our predictions from both earlier in the week and the preseason. Our record, as noted below, is based upon picks we made in the weeks before the respective games, and not upon our preseason predictions.

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